Mie Nakachi looks at how the war against Ukraine has affected the Russian government’s abortion policy and recalls Soviet initiatives in reproductive policy, which repeatedly failed to achieve the desired goals.

On numerous occasions in post-Soviet Russia, conservative politicians and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have called for anti-abortion measures and the return of traditional gender roles. However, medical experts have defended accessible abortions, and no health minister has previously argued that women should prioritize childbirth over education in order to raise the birthrate.

  • Anekdoteles@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No, it’s really just conservative old men pushing their “values” onto everyone. They’re not actually values because it’s not like they honestly believe in them or have any good reasoning to oppose the pro-choice arguments, but rather just outdated views they grew up with and refuse to further grow out of.

    I think that’s actually a great obersvation and put very precise. Indeed, it seems like most of what could be considered as “old values” is just the result of missing out on new information hence the strong connection between conservatism and misinformation. Even the problems around climate change, which seems like a mere evidence based phenomenon, leads back to the moment, where humanity realised that it exists, but failed to immediatly implement sustainibility as a new value.